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Suicide Rate Among Vets and Active Duty Military Jumps - Now 22 A Day - Forbes
This is obscene. We owe them so much but we give them less than nothing. Our First and Second Ladies have helped by opening job and housing opportunities for vets and their families but its not enough. The VA has been a huge bureaucratic mess for many many years. I can remember Vietnam vets getting the same years-long run around and its only gotten worse.
Write you congress person and demand that vets get the benefits they've earned. And, none of that shit about taking food stamps away from children and the elderly to pay for it. We're supposedly the richest nation in the world and we can afford to help the least and most wounded among us.
Just please do it.
Almost once an hour every 65 minutes to be precise a military veteran commits suicide, says a new investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs. By far the most extensive study of veteran suicides ever conducted, the report, issued Friday, examined suicide data from 1999 to 2010.
The data was then compared with a previous investigation primarily an estimation that had been conducted over the same time period, and had found a suicide rate of 18 per day.
Many of these suicides involve older veterans; 69 percent of the suicides recorded were by veterans age 50 and older. But another way to look at this is that 31 percent of these suicides were by veterans 49 and younger. In other words,by men in the prime of life.
This is obscene. We owe them so much but we give them less than nothing. Our First and Second Ladies have helped by opening job and housing opportunities for vets and their families but its not enough. The VA has been a huge bureaucratic mess for many many years. I can remember Vietnam vets getting the same years-long run around and its only gotten worse.
Write you congress person and demand that vets get the benefits they've earned. And, none of that shit about taking food stamps away from children and the elderly to pay for it. We're supposedly the richest nation in the world and we can afford to help the least and most wounded among us.
Just please do it.